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Purpose. The development of virtual reality (VR) offers new opportunities for users to carry out some forms of physical activity (PA) in a virtual environment. However, these solutions are not widely used and their potential is not fully explored by PA practitioners and promoters. The main objective of the study is to assess the potential for the use of non-immersive and immersive virtual reality (nIVR and IVR) technologies in PA by future healthy lifestyle promoters based on their cycling experiences in a virtual environment. Methods. Forty students from the Academy of Physical Education (AWF) in Katowice, Poland, including 20 females (age: 22.35±2.32 years) and 20 males (age: 22.95±2.19 years), were surveyed and completed the authors' questionnaire in order for the potential of nIVR and IVR technologies to be assessed in PA. Findings. The respondents were positive about the potential of IVR in the context of supporting PA, as demonstrated by quantitative analysis of the collected material, with a significantly stronger declaration of willingness to use IVR and its recommendation to other users compared to nIVR technology. Furthermore, a qualitative analysis of the respondents' open-ended statements revealed that for PA in IVR, the participants showed a broader spectrum of benefit categories than for PA in nIVR. Research limitations and conclusions. The sampling applied in the study means that the conclusions cannot be generalised to the entire population of potential VR technology users during PA. Practical implications. The highly rated potential of IVR in the context of supporting PA should provide inspiration for both PA planners and promoters of active video games (AVGs). Virtual training may become a mass phenomenon in the near future. Originality. The study regards the potential of using VR technology for PA, consisting of three components: intention to use VR in PA, perceived benefits of VR and PA, and willingness to recommend VR in PA. Type of paper. Research study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The paper aims to analyse publications on physical activity and tourism management in mountain areas which appeared in the over 30-year period of publishing the journal "Folia Turistica" (FT). Material and methods. The research consisted of four stages: preliminary analysis of titles and abstracts of research papers published in FT in the years 1990-2020, a detailed analysis of the content of research papers pertaining to mountain issues, collecting and processing the data necessary to prepare methodological profiles of research papers using the OMPN©, analysis and discussion of the results obtained. Results. Among the 75 scientific articles qualified for the study, works in the field of social sciences, as well as in the field of natural sciences and humanities prevailed. Four leading thematic areas can be distinguished: physical or tourist activity, resource management and governance, nature and protected areas, tourist and recreational infrastructure. The share of papers on historical issues, law and security issues, and education and leadership was clearly smaller. Research and the resulting scientific articles were more often interdisciplinary (rather than monodisciplinary), the positivist approach prevailed (rather than interpretative), empirical research was undertaken more often (rather than theoretical studies), while scientific reasoning and inferences were much more often based on induction (not deduction). Conclusions. The research shows that articles on physical/tourism activity in mountain regions published in FT were highly diverse in their methodological approaches, and in many works there is a scholarly approach known as triangulation, which involves joining various approaches and research methods and drawing conclusions based on various kinds of data. This situation, together with the relatively low-level development of tourism research compared to other more advanced fields and disciplines, does not facilitate our task of evaluating the various articles and their significance in attaining valuable knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the article is to answer the question: what can non-economic universities do to improve their curricula for economic modules and methods of implementation? Literature review, participant observation and descriptive statistics were used based on an original set of 430 projects from the 'Marketing of tourism and leisure services' course for the academic years 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17. Adopting a student orientation as a long-term partner in the information exchange process, in line with the concept of relationship marketing, contributes to the intensification of the didactic process aimed at broadening knowledge of economic reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent worldwide tourism trends reveal increased public interest in travel centered on values connected to the human body, such as health and fitness. In commercial terms, this calls for the development of tourism packages whose structure would meet the tourists' needs and desires related to various forms of physical activity by providing them with opportunities to participate. However, few scholars have conducted empirical studies to identify factors determining the utility of such products from the perspective of consumers. This article is intended to fill this gap. It was assumed here that the inclusion of physical activity into tourism packages would generate for the tourists unique features including the opportunity to exhibit courage, testing one's psychological and physical abilities, rivalry, adventure, access to sports and leisure facilities, experiencing risk to one's health or life, and contact with nature. Subsequently, the actual importance of these attributes for the utility of tourism packages was measured using conjoint analysis for a population of Cracow students, who tend to be active tourists. It was found that respondents prefer tourism packages characterized by high levels of all of the above-mentioned attributes except for risk. At the same time, they pay more attention to components forming the actual level of the products than to the experiences arising from the consumption of those components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]